Intel 730 SSD review

Intel recently announced the series 730 SSD, and here we review it. The arrival of the new 730 series for consumers is interesting as it is a product that uses the server SSD DNA from Intel, and that means reliability, better durability and very fast performance. Let's check out the review with a 480GB super-sized version.

Not much improvement over my almost 2 years old Intel 520 120GB but it's good to see SSD prices per GB are going down + additional (but small and hardly noticable in real-life) speed boost over previous SSD generations.

Now just to wait maybe year or so for SSD prices go down (I hope so) for about 1/3 and I'll kick out every HDD from my rigs except those used for storage purposes (pics and videos of kids etc.), 480GB SSD is more than enough for my needs, OS, needed programs and few games.

alanm
Ancient Guru

Posts: 7153

Posted on: 04/01/2014 11:49 AM
Excellent review. Didnt expect an SSD to be so thoroughly tested here. You threw every bench in the book at this thing Hilbert . Nice to see Intels competitive pricing on these.

Pale Rider
Member Guru

Posts: 81

Posted on: 04/01/2014 08:05 PM
Does the EU get a slightly different version of this SSD?In the US this is what these Intel 930's look like with the SkullTrail logo: